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Vira Mamchur Schwartz

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vschwartz@dailyvoice.com

Vira Mamchur Schwartz is the quintessential jack-of-all-trades... and master of a few of them. Vira’s editorial career started in technology publishing, writing and editing at the Ziff-Davis publication Computer Shopper. Later she served as Managing Editor at CD-ROM World and then Internet World, before moving to freelance writing.

Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Folio, Portable Computing, Internet Shopper and other websites and magazines that no longer exist. She ghost-wrote and designed an award-winning diet and fitness book for a popular fitness personality and, currently, loves to tell stories about people and animals.

Vira Mamchur Schwartz's Contributions

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Daily Voice Expands In New London County Can there be too much of a good thing? Not if it’s local news from Daily Voice! Daily Voice is expanding its reach in our—and your—home state of Connecticut. While local newspapers and online sites are closing their doors and leaving areas of the Nutmeg State without a local news outlet, we’re going from 1 New London County site to 13, covering individual towns in the county starting later in April. “News deserts” (places without any local newspaper, even a weekly) surround more than a fifth of U.S. citizens, but Daily Voice is here to pick up the slack. Later in April, Daily Voice wil…

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Daily Voice Expands In Tolland County Can there be too much of a good thing? Not if it’s local news from Daily Voice! Daily Voice is expanding its reach in our—and your—home state of Connecticut. While local newspapers and online sites are closing their doors and leaving areas of the Nutmeg State without a local news outlet, we’re going from one Tolland County site to nine, covering individual towns in the county starting later in April. “News deserts” (places without any local newspaper, even a weekly) surround more than a fifth of U.S. citizens, but Daily Voice is here to pick up the slack. Later this April, Daily V…

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Daily Voice Expands In Windham County Can there be too much of a good thing? Not if it’s local news from Daily Voice! Daily Voice is expanding its reach in our—and your—home state of Connecticut. While local newspapers and online sites are closing their doors and leaving areas of the Nutmeg State without a local news outlet, we’re going from one Windham County site to eight, covering individual towns in the county starting later in April. “News deserts” (places without any local newspaper, even a weekly) surround more than a fifth of U.S. citizens, but Daily Voice is here to pick up the slack. Later this April, Daily Voice…

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Daily Voice Expands In Litchfield County Can there be too much of a good thing? Not if it’s local news from Daily Voice! Daily Voice is expanding its reach in our—and your—home state of Connecticut. While local newspapers and online sites are closing their doors and leaving areas of the Nutmeg State without a local news outlet, we’re going from 1 Litchfield County site to 11, covering individual towns in the county starting later in April. “News deserts” (places without any local newspaper, even a weekly) surround more than a fifth of U.S. citizens, but Daily Voice is here to pick up the slack. Later this April, Daily Voice w…

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Daily Voice Expands In New Haven County Can there be too much of a good thing? Not if it’s local news from Daily Voice! Daily Voice is expanding its reach in our—and your—home state of Connecticut. While local newspapers and online sites are closing their doors and leaving areas of the Nutmeg State without a local news outlet, we’re going from 1 New Haven County site to 23, covering individual towns in the county starting later in April. Later in April, Daily Voice will have 23 sites covering New Haven County. Daily Voice “News deserts” (places without any local newspaper, even a weekly) surround more than a fifth of U.S.…

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Daily Voice Expands In Middlesex County Can there be too much of a good thing? Not if it’s local news from Daily Voice! Daily Voice is expanding its reach in our—and your—home state of Connecticut. While local newspapers and online sites are closing their doors and leaving areas of the Nutmeg State without a local news outlet, we’re going from 1 Middlesex County site to 11, covering individual towns in the county starting later in April. “News deserts” (places without any local newspaper, even a weekly) surround more than a fifth of U.S. citizens, but Daily Voice is here to pick up the slack. Later this April, Daily Voice wi…

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Daily Voice Expands In Hartford County Can there be too much of a good thing? Not if it’s local news from Daily Voice! Daily Voice is expanding its reach in our—and your—home state of Connecticut. While local newspapers and online sites are closing their doors and leaving areas of the Nutmeg State without a local news outlet, we’re going from 1 Hartford County site to 27, covering individual towns in the county starting later this April. “News deserts” (places without any local newspaper, even a weekly) surround more than a fifth of U.S. citizens, but Daily Voice is here to pick up the slack. Later in April, Daily Voice wil…

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Obituaries

Robert Buckley 'Bucky' Boies, 33, Had A Remarkable Life Robert Buckley “Bucky” Boies, age 33, of Bigfork, MT, tragically passed into the arms of God on March 10, 2024. He was born October 8, 1990, in Williamsburg, VA to David Boies III and Robin Lou Boies (Weiss). Bucky graduated from Woodson High School in Fairfax, VA and Flathead College in Kalispell, MT with a degree in criminal justice. Bucky also attended Trinity Christian School, Rippowam Cisqua School, Hargrave Military Academy, and Barry University. Although a Virginian by birth, Bucky traveled extensively and lived in many places throughout the United States, including Florida, New Yor…

by Family of Robert Buckley Boies

03/27/2024

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Yonkers Native, Kathleen Garrity Cook, 88, Saw The Best In Everyone Kathleen Cook passed away at the age of 88 peacefully, surrounded by her family on March 2, 2024. Kathleen was born in Yonkers, NY on Feb. 29,1936 to the Hon. Judge Harold T. and Mary Broderick Garrity. She grew up in Yonkers with her siblings MaryAnn (Charles Hagelin), James (Andrea), and Matthew (Judy) Garrity. She graduated from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers and continued her education studying business law at Marymount Jr. College in Arlington, VA. In 1960 Kathleen married Robert William Cook and they moved to Chappaqua, where they raised their four children…

by Family of Kathleen Cook

03/06/2024

Obituaries

Karen McCorkle Consolini, 92, Had 'A Memorable And Piquant Personality' Karen McCorkle Consolini, 92, passed on January 13, 2024 at the Moorings at Lewes, a continued care retirement community in Lewes, DE, where she had resided since 2010. Born in 1931 in Tulsa, OK to Maxine Elizabeth Boesche and John Morris McCorkle, Karen grew up in Pasadena, CA, graduating from South Pasadena High—where she also served as Senior Class President—in 1950. Karen was a smart, brave, independent, and liberated young woman of the ‘50s. After attending Colorado College, she moved alone to New York City into a tiny walk-up apartment in the heart of bohemian Greenwich Village. She e…

by Family of Karen McCorkle Consolini

01/26/2024

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